$Windpower-Energy Storage$
17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar. |
"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks
Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps. |
A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth
Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover] |
Alternative Energy Storage Surprises
Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density. |
Ancillary Services Conference
Jan., 2005 conference considered “Loads and/or Storage As Suppliers of Regulation” and “Cost Effective Frequency Regulation Using Energy Recycling and Flywheel Energy Storage Systems” |
California Distributed Energy Resource Guide
Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air. |
Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society?
Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical. |
Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen
Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery. |
CLRC Energy Research Unit
Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels. |
EERE: Power - Energy Storage
U. S. Department of Energy site with short summaries of compressed air energy storage, superconducting magnet E. S., flywheels, pumped hydro, Utility Battery Storage (UBS) and supercapacitors. |
Electricity Storage and Renewables?
Transmission & Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association. |
Electricity Storage Association
"A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies |
Electricity Storage Association
Newsletter reviews recent events for several technologies. |
Energy Storage
history highlights thermal. From the U. of Rochester District Energy Library. |
Energy Storage
Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits. |
Energy Storage
Page with links to pdfs on storage, and other energy issues. |
Energy Storage
Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details. |
Energy Storage Council
Group of industries and developers to advocate and facilitate the deployment of energy storage technologies. Links to pages of 6 charter members and 2 newer members. |
Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian
Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book. |
Energy Storage Technologies
Research, evaluation, and application of energy storage technologies (EPRI PEAC) |
Energy Storage Technologies Could Help U.S. Avert Blackouts
Article from Inside Energy /with Federal Lands |
Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area
Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts. |
Energy Storage: General
Diagrams of fuel cells, compensated (constant volume) and uncompensated (constant pressure) compressed air, batteries, and pumped hydro. |
Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage
IEEE Committee show of 12 slides |
Global Markets for Capacitors, Flywheels and SMES Systems
Emerging and Mature Technologies. Promotes report projecting market growth. |
Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Distribution Applications
EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles. |
Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Concepts
book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information. |
More on Energy Storage
College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem. |
MORECARE Project
More Advanced Control Advice for Secure Operation of Isolated Power Systems with Increased Renewable Energy Penetration and Storage |
No power? No problem
Machinedesign.com article about written-pole motors. "allows motors to operate more consistently despite weak, intermittent, or unreliable power supplies" |
Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum
says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables. |
Optimal Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch Of Cogeneration Systems With A Storage (ResearchIndex)
high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration. |
Personal Energy Sources
Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary. |
Phosphate-Cathode-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries in Large-Format Applications - PowerPulse.Net
Senior Battery Engineer compares Saphion Energy Cell to others. |
Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage
MIT Media Lab compares flywheels, compressed air, ultracapacitors, and fuel cells. |
PowerCorp
Markets 15 Mega-Joule Flywheel system. |
Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system
with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking. 5-author 8-page pdf of paper describes use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency. |
Pumped storage for renewable energy
Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste. |
Reliability Management and Oversight
Part of US DOE study shows (p. B-17) graph of reserve electricity prices moving between 0 and 750 dollars per MegaWatt-hour. |
Renewable Energy News: Blackout Highlights Solar Energy Potential
Postulates hydrogen for energy storage, with photovoltaics, to prevent future blackouts. Includes before and after satellite photographs of recent northeast USA blackout. Register (free) to view full story |
Written-Pole Technology
allows a simple, rugged power protection unit |
YA Hydrogen article - positive this time
212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables |
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